3/160. I blagged one of these as my workstation as it had 12
meg of memory. It was being returned as upgrade residue I only got
rid of it when I was offered a:

4/110. A workstation capable of running NeWS, well if you
had the floating point unit. My one was a lemon, if ever any one
heavy walked past my desk it would reset. However when it was
running it was fast!

SparcStation
1. Audio as standard on a workstation. How cool was that.

The 386i.
Look what happens when you take a slightly different approach to
system management. Yes all your hosts are called “oak”.

The SPARCstation
10. Four CPUs on the desktop, fab, ISDN on the back, not so
fab.

The SPARCcentre 2000. Have some more CPUs. You know you want
them. (Then for laughs naming the upgrade the 2000E, dooming our
lab system to be known as Cortina.)

The SPARC Storage array. Put all those disks in one box.
Attach two fibres.

NeWS. A
window system that made a virtue of being able to program in
PostScript, allowing those of us who were intimate with the printers
to be the experts!

TFS. The translucent file system. It had more subtleties than
just being translucent but you could build some brilliant
technologies4
on top of it. I wanted to smoke some of the stuff whoever thought it
up was smoking.

The automounter. Even when it used symbolic links and
/tmp_mnt to mount things it was cool. Since it has had autofs it is
positively sub zero, don't start me on the things you can do with
executable maps.

Threads in user land. Not those light weight processes we had
in 4.x real fully fledged threading in a single process. Now my mail
search program could consume the whole SC2000, briefly, very
briefly.

ZFS. At last
we can hold our heads up and say that the file system is going to
have the contract with the user that the users always thought that
they had. Ie you will get back the same data as you wrote or an
error.

Putting up with me for 20 years!

I've not included the people which are the real stars of which
there have been and are many singling them out somehow seems wrong.